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2024 Reading List

  • Jan/Feb-Unlikely Animals by Annie Harnett
  • March-Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
  • April-Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
  • May-If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
  • June/July-the Summer Book by Tove Jansson
  • August (15 year Anniversary) -Tom Lake by Ann Pachett
  • September-Yellow Face by R.F. Kuang
  • Oct/Nov-Lone Woman by Victor LaValle
  • December-the Wishing Game by Meg Schaffer

2023 Reading List

  • January-All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond
  • February-Your House will Pay by Steph Cha
  • March-Miss Eliza's English Kitchen by Annable Abbs
  • April-Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters
  • May-Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Watson
  • June-Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
  • July-Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  • September-Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • October-the Man with 8 pairs of Legs by Leslie Kirk Campbell
  • December-Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shfak

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Welcome to the Beehive Ladies Book Society. We are a small group of sassy women who enjoy classy literature. Once a month we meet to dicuss our book, eat yummy food, drink a cocktail (or two) and laugh a lot. Please join us on our journey... we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Sincerely,
Ms. Jane

2022 reading list

  • Nov/Dec 2022 Faithful by Alice Hoffman Fiction
  • October 2022 While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams Fiction/Mystery
  • Aug/Sept 2022 You’re leaving When? By Annabelle Gurwitch Biography/essays
  • July 2022 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  • June 2022 the Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Darel
  • May 2022 the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • March/April 2022 The Giver of Starts by Jojo Moyes
  • February 2022 Interior Chinatown by CharlesYu
  • January 2022 Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Archival Reading list 2009-21

November/December 2021 Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
October 2021-Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno-Garcia
August/September 2021-Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
July 2021-Circe by Madeline Miller
June 2021-Why we swim by Bonnie Tsui
May 2021- Midnight Library by Matt Haig
April 2021 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
February/March 2021 - The Life She was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
January 2021- The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

December 2020-Underground Airport by Ben H. Winters
October/Nov 2020-Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
August 2020- The Little Old Lady who Broke all the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
July 2020- the Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
June 2020- Love and other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
May 2020- Where to Crawdads sing by Delia Owens
March 2020- There, There by Tommy Orange
February 2020- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
January 2020-Dear Mrs. Bird by PJ Pearce

December 2019-One Amazing Thing
November 2019-My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh
October 2019-History of Bees-Maja Lunde
September 2019-Little-Edward Carey
July 2019-Behold the Dreamers-Imbolo Mbue
June 2019- Becoming by Michelle Obama
May 2019-Sourdough-Robin Sloan
April 2019-Educated- Tara Westover
March 2019- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
February 2019- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
January 2019 -Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

November December 2018- Before we Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
October 2018- Radium Girls by Kate Moore
September 2018- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
August 2018-Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
June 2018 - Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
May 2018- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
April 2018-Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
March 2018- Keeper of Lost things by Ruth Hogan
January 2018
Slade House by David Mitchell

December 2017-I am America (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert
November 2017-A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
October 2017 - Commonwealth by Ann Patchet
September 2017 - A man called Ove by Fredrick Backman
June/July 2017 -Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brulee by Thomas Craughwell
May 2017- Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
April 2017-Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
March 2017-The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
January 2017
Signs preceding the end of the world by Yuri Herrera

December Cookie Exchange -
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
October 2016-
Shakespeare Saved my life by Laura Bates
September 2016-
Rocket Girl: The story of Mary Sherman by George D. Morgan
August 2016-The Girl with all the gifts by
M.R. Carey
June 2016- My Grandmother Said to tell you she's sorry
by Fredrik Backman
May 2016-Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
March/April- Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Feb 2016-Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Jan 2016 - the Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Lagenski

Nov/Dec 2015- The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
October 2015-The Magician Lie by Greer Macallister
September 2015-Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius
August 2015-Where'd you go Bernadette? by
July 2015- Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
May/June 2015 - Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
March/April 2015- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Mara
February/March 2015- Destiny of the Republic: A tale of Madness...by Candice Millard
January 2015- The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

November/December 2014- The First Fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North
October/November 2014- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
September 2014 -And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
July August 2014- Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
May June 2014 - Mr Penumbra's 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
April 2014- Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
March 2014- March by Geraldine Brooks
February 2014 - The Holy or the Unbroken by Alan Light
January 2014 - Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D.James

Nov/Dec 2013-Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
October 2013- Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
August/September 2013: Quiet by Susan Cain
July/August 2013: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
May/June 2013: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
March/April: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
February/March 2013: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
January 2013: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

November/December 2012: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald October 2012: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness September 2012: The World to Come by Dara Horn
July/August 2012:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
June 2012:Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
May 2012: Swaplandia by Karen Russel
April 2012: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
March 2012:Room by Emma Donoghue
February 2012: I Feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephron January 2012: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

November/December 2011: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.
October 2011: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde September 2011: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine MD.
July/August 2011: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 2011: The Zookeeper' wife by Diane Ackerman
May 2011: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
April 2011: Without Reservations the travels of an independent woman by Alice Steinbach
March 2011: The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
February 2011: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
January 2011: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Holiday 2010: Redbird Christmas by Fanny Flagg

October 2010: the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman September 2010: the Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman July/August 2010: the Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton May 2010: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith April 2010: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
March 2010: The Given Day by Dennise Lehane
February 2010: The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
December/January 2010: the 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield

November/December 2009: Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
October 2009: Pride & Prejudice & the Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith
September 2009: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
August 2009: Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See July 2009: Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

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